Box office territory

A box office territory, in context of the film industry, ranges from a single country to a grouping of countries for reporting box office gross ticket sales. This is distinct from dependent territories, though such territories under a country's administrative control may confuse box office revenue and reporting due to data variously including or excluding them.

In box office parlance, "North America" is a territory that comprises the United States and Canada, despite there being 23 countries within the geographical definition of North America. In context of the box office, North America is currently considered the territory with the largest gross. Kelly Crabb writes in The Movie Business that it has traditionally represented the largest "source of revenues" and also has had "the world's most important" film distribution companies located in it. China is considered the second largest territory, though it is expected to surpass North America in the near future. Japan was originally the second-largest box office territory before it was surpassed by China in 2011. As of 2013, the next three largest territories were the United Kingdom, France, and India.

The box office territory of the United Kingdom comprises the UK and Ireland. Malta's box office is added to the UK and Ireland total by at least one data provider. The countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, together known as Benelux, are sometimes treated as a single box office territory, although the data is also reported separately for each country by some data providers.

Mexico, whose box office gross is reported separately from the "North American" data, is the top box office territory in Latin America.

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